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Adaptec 2940 controllers



On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Glenn Burkhardt wrote:

> > I recently tried to upgrade the former Boston Computer Society server from 
> > an old version of Slackware. The system has a 2940w controller which is one 
> > of the ones that the 2.0 kernels don't like.

> I wish you hadn't sent this, because now my computer is going know that it's
> not supposed to work, although it's been running flawlessly with a 2940
> controller for almost a year.

I have a 2940 (though not the W variety) working with Linux 2.0.31. The
one catch I found is that I had to disable PCI peer concurrency in the
BIOS setup; otherwise, there were erratic problems.






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